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Notes on gears
Gears are mechanical elements which are used for transmitting a synchronous motion directly between shafts; these may be parallel or at any skew axis. Gears are the most durable and rugged of all mechanical drives and can be used for transmitting high power with high efficiency (up to 99% in the case of parallel shafts).

The design of meshing gears is complex especially if an optimum solution is required in an application. British, American and ISO standards describe analytical techniques in much detail but they tend to be rather daunting to the inexperienced and infrequent gear designer. Manufacturers' catalogues, in contrast, often do not give adequate design information to enable a thorough verifying analysis to be performed on the gears they produce. Frequently a simplified analytical selection procedure is given but for a more comprehensive explanation it is necessary to make reference to the appropriate standard for details.

The following list give some additional notes:-